#Hacking_diabetes press conference : spotlight on the winning teams!

The Hacking
Diabetes adventure isn’t over yet! As Novo Nordisk Tunisia
is acting as an innovative company in the e-health network in Tunisia,
it is important to keep up the rhythm and involve more and more
partners to create a solid network to engage change in the field of healthcare.

The adventure “Hacking Diabetes” continues for the NN Team and the
winners of the Hackathon, as they all gathered together for a press
conference with the main lay media in Tunisia to speak about Hacking
Diabetes or in a more simple way; bringing innovation and new
technologies to the patient daily life to make it better!

The two teams, Diabmeeties and Diachain, first dropped in the
offices of Novo Nordisk Tunisia to discuss more the impact of their
project on the e-health in Tunisia and to meet the Novo Nordisk
Tunisia teams and employees!

The press conference was an opportunity to introduce the two teams to
the major lay media and to initiate the conversation about the
importance of new technologies and digital platform to provide an
optimized and closer medical care to people with diabetes.

Mohamed Larbi Jelassi, Market Access and Public Affairs Manager and
Firas Elhdhili, PSP Manager, emphasized on the importance of this
approach; with more than 46% of Tunisians having access to internet
and more than 41% on smartphones, offering healthcare services through
digital platform is becoming a necessity to improve the medical care
for diabetes and to have a wider reach. As it is known, a better
patient’s care reduces the complications of diabetes on the long term.

The digital technologies are also a good tool to raise awareness for
the general public about diabetes, healthy habits and how to prevent
non- chronic diseases like hypertension and obesity.

The two winning teams then presented their wining projects to the
media; Diabmeeties, a social media for people with diabetes and
Diachain, an IA that assists HCPs to optimize their treatment.
Afterward, they answered all the questions from the concepts of the
projects, how they are going to implement them, to the studies of the
young winners and their aspirations as youngsters in the field of e-health.

The press conference brought light on the importance of new
technologies and the added value it can have in a field like healthcare.

Tunisian Diabetes Month 2018

Who we are

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 95 years of
innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us
experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat
other serious chronic conditions: hemophilia, growth disorders and
obesity.

Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs
approximately 42,200 people in 80 countries and markets its products
in more than 170 countries.